So I am expecting an offer for an internship role with a company I have connections to. I spoke with the team leader and in anticipation of starting the role, he recommended I start getting up to speed on VueJS! I’m so happy I’m starting to get the ball rolling…

Before my job search even officially began, I received a referral to a ML company that needed a front end engineer. It was a very long process and it included a take home assignment, I needed to make a frontend app that handles big data. Eventually I turned the assignment…

** I was unaware that moment.JS is recommending that it no longer should be used. There are plenty of other npms that can do something similar and it seems like the community is phasing out moment. You can still use it, but it’s recommended that we no longer use it in new apps. However, I still want to keep the post up. You can read this for enjoyment! ** — As some of you may know, I’ve been on the job search. Recently I was interviewing with a certain company and I received a take home assignment from them. I’m not going to share any specifics because these take home assignments are private, however I can give a broad over…

When I created my frontend bitcoin app I wanted to use something that was easy and simple. The way to normally go about using JS packages to create graphs would be with D3JS. It can make the most beautiful complex charts and graphs, however it also has a large learning…

Alright so I think this will be the last blog post I decide to milk with the whole NodeJS/ExpressJS/MongoDB shin-dig. We have one last thing to touch on and that’s model relationships within mongoDB. For a refresher, it’s common for apps to use a conventional ORM DB for related data…

2 weeks ago I published a blog post that was a tutorial on building a NodeJs/ExpressJs/MongoDB API. I think that provided a really good basis of understanding, however I found a flaw. It didn’t follow the principle of having 1 thing handle 1 action in programming. The routes.js file was…

Recently I’ve been tinkering with the MERN stack. I’ve heard this stack is pretty popular and wanted to get into NodeJS & ExpressJS because of that. Commonly webapps will use MongoDB when getting into node and express, but when is MongoDB useful? Is it better to use one compared to…

So it seems like a lot of companies today use the MERN stack. This stands for mongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS. This is awesome because that means that you can have a Full Stack web application written 100% in JS, which makes things easier. Because of this I’ve seen a lot…

If you are just graduating from Computer Science or a bootcamp in Software Engineering everyone is going to tell you to build a portfolio website. What is a portfolio website? It’s a web page devoted to tell people about your background, technical skills, past projects/work experience and leave contact information…